Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 288 The Emperor and the Lucky Minister

Before the rise of aircraft and aircraft carriers, before the third technological revolution, water warfare [naval warfare] in the past thousands of years, no matter how reversed and changed, they could not escape the cage of "ship strong guns + giant ship cannons" .

The big wins the small, and the strong overcomes the weak, which is justified in water battles.

And the 'cannons' they carry, that is, bows and arrows at first, poles later, and real artillery, are also the number of soldiers on the warship.In the era before the advent of steam warships, hand-to-hand combat was unavoidable for Westerners who were accustomed to naval warfare.

Lu Qian knew nothing about water warfare, but he provided the Liangshanbo Navy with the best hardware.

There is the world's top-notch shipbuilder—Mengkang Yufangan, a large number of high-quality wood after drying in the shade—which cost countless money, and waves of boat builders and boatmen sent by the Manichaeans from the south of the Yangtze River.

He even provided Meng Kang with an idea, which may be his only understanding of classical water warfare.It is a record related to the Navy of the Southern Song Dynasty in memory: the bottom of the lake boat, the cover of the warship, and the multi-oared boat at the bow and stern of the sea boat.

As for the name of the ship, how many soldiers it could carry, who invented it, how many bed crossbows and poles it had, and how many oars it had, he couldn't remember all of it.Just remember that sentence, the bottom of the lake boat, the cover of the war boat, and the bow and tail of the sea boat.

But such a sentence made Meng Kang feel like he had found a treasure. After half a year of hard thinking, he finally took out a model boat.The craftsmen were called together to draw ladles according to the gourd, and finally made a new type of warship with a length of one or eight feet, a width of one foot and six feet, double layers, twenty pairs of oars, six beds and crossbows, and a hundred soldiers.

The bottom of the lake boat can wade in the shallows, the cover of the war boat can fight, and the bow and stern of the sea boat can break through the waves.The principle is a perfect battleship.

Just talking about its effectiveness in water combat exercises, the performance of this warship named "Red Jiao Boat" is also quite impressive.

Of course, only three warships of this kind have been built so far.

Most of the warships in Liang Shanshui Division are sea falcons, sea loaches, and small vehicles and boats.

Lijiadaokou.Tens of thousands of infantry from the Liangshan Army had rolled southward, and battleships on the water not far away stretched into the sky.

It is sixty miles away from Nashigou Town.If the infantry of the Song Army were called to come, it would be absolutely impossible within two days, but for the Liangshan Army, one day was enough for the army to rush to Shigou Town.

On the same day, the news had spread from Shigou Town to Hecai Town.

Gao Qiu looked at the topographic map of Qilu with a radius of more than several feet in front of him, and looked at the location of Shigou Town, feeling very proud in his heart.But this guy had arrived at Hecai Town a long time ago. Although his banner had been flying over the Guangji Army, it was just to deceive others.

"Liangshan's bandits and bandits moved together on both land and water, and this is really what I plan to do."

There are three troops in Shigou Town: Yang Wen, Xiang Yuanzhen, and Liu Menglong, with a total of [-] sergeants, all of whom are considered elite.Is it easy?
There are no more than [-] to [-] bandit soldiers in Liangshan Boli.If people don't come to attack, they are as if the sharp edge is behind their backs, and the east, north, and west must not be used.And if they came to attack and kill, even if the [-] elite officers and soldiers could not defeat the Liangshanpo bandits, they could at least fight to a stalemate.After all, the battle of Shigou Town was not a battle in the wild, but Liangshanbo was attacking and the South Route Army was defending.

A stalemate in a fight, or a lose-lose fight, is already the end of the game.

It's not that Gao Qiu underestimated Liang Shanjun.In fact, it is the inertial thinking of people.

Although Liang Shanbo has repeatedly defeated the army, no one regards Liang Shanbo as the best elite in the world.But people don't know how powerful it is until they experience the suffering for themselves.

As it is said in later generations, the new overlord must step on the corpse of the old overlord to ascend to the throne.The Liangshan Army defeated only ordinary officers and soldiers. Even if there were so-called elite Forbidden Army led by He Guan, how many senior officials in the imperial court did not know the real level of the Forbidden Army in the capital?But no one compares them to the Western Army.

This is like the devil soldiers during the Anti-Japanese War, who defeated millions of Chinese soldiers, but no one regarded them as the strongest army in World War II.

Now, Gao Qi regards Liang Shanbo's soldiers and horses as the subordinate soldiers of Shijiedu, and he already thinks highly of them.

In Gao Li's estimation, Liang Shanbo's main force is only about 3.Years ago, in the battle of Liangshanbo's breach of the daiming, it was first to attack the east and the west, and then to deceive the world. The total number of soldiers and horses used was less than [-].Gao Lian's estimation is still reasonable.

How can the 3 main force of the bandit army go out to attack Shigou Town?

And even if it's an all-out attack, 3 people fighting 3 people, and it's not a wild battle, in Gao Lian's eyes, it will definitely not be easy to decide the winner.

Furthermore, as far as Gao Qiu knew, many of the bandit soldiers in Liangshan Po were captured officers and soldiers in the past. When he left Beijing, he specially asked the emperor for an imperial decree, promising that anyone who knew his mistakes and could change his ways and turn to the light would never be blamed.Thoughts come from the hearts of thieves who can shake Liangshan.

This is also Gao Qiu who knows that Liang Shanbo has won many victories and seized an unknown number of weapons and armor, and his military equipment is no less than that of the elite officers and soldiers.That Lu Qian thief is even more extraordinary, he has made waves like this in two years, rampant in Qilu, Zhaowei, and tens of thousands of instructors and troops who have no courage to resist, his talent must be extraordinary, and he really cannot be regarded as an ordinary thief.It took so much effort.

"Pass down our military order to tell Wang Huan to lead Li Congji to Qinghe County. The Liu Zhen Department in Puzhou heard Wang Huan's dispatch and asked Xu Jing, Wang Wende, and Mei Zhan to lead the troops to Hecai Town."

Liang Shanbo's army dispatched to kill Shigou Town, which meant that the battle had really started.

In order to do everything in one fell swoop, Gao Li had no way to lead an army of [-] to attack Liangshan, and he did not have such talent.

Leading an army of [-], bringing such a large number of people to the battlefield, spreading them out, and dispatching them forward and backward, is not something that anyone can do casually.Not everyone is like Han Xin, the more soldiers the better.

Gao Qiu is very self-aware, otherwise he would not have thought of going to the northwest to show off, and he would have stayed in Tokyo City dutifully from the beginning to the end.He absolutely does not have the ability to dispatch an army of [-] like a command.But he thinks he can be a Han Liu Bang, Liu Bang is not good at generals but good at generals.Gao Qiu did just that.Teach rough old men the business of war.

However, there are still many small calculations in the distribution and combination.

For example, Yang Wen, Xiang Yuanzhen and Liu Menglong, Yang Wen who was born in the Yang family was obviously a head taller.

Wang Huan is the eldest brother in the Ten Jiedu, but the soldiers under this old man are probably the weakest in the Ten Jiedu.Who asked him to be stationed in the capital? After serving as a Taiwei for several years, Gao Qiu still didn't know what the soldiers of the Song Dynasty were like.The more prosperous the soldiers and horses are, the more vulnerable they are to fighting.The soldiers and horses under Wang Huan, an old man, are probably stronger than the imperial army in the capital.

But Wang Huan, an old thief, has a very high prestige in the ten festivals, and he can easily overwhelm Li Congji.The latter is the envoy of Hanyang Jiedu in Longxi, and his station is close to the northwest, next to Tubo and Hehuang.The soldiers and horses under him naturally have combat power.

Such a weak one is strong and another is strong and the other is weak, the matching is just right.

In the army that Gao Qiu was in, the five Jiedu Envoys Zhonghan Cunbao was the well-deserved boss, and this guy had too much roots.Even though the Han family has fallen, Han Xiaozhou [Han Zhongyan's grandson] knows Xiangzhou, and his family's foundation is still there, but it is difficult to have an important official of the Han family in the court.

——Han Yuzhou, the power minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, was also Han Xiaozhou's cousin and Han Qi's great-grandson.

If it is possible, Gao Qiu would not mind selling it to Han Cunbao, so that he can give him two points of credit.After all, there are quite a few Han family disciples among the senior officials of the court.

Among the five Jiedu envoys today, Wang Wende, the envoy of Hongnong Jiedu in the north of Beijing, and Mei Zhan, the envoy of Jiedu in Runan of Yingzhou, are probably only on par with Wang Huan; In Gao Qiu's eyes, the troops and horses of Han Cunbao's headquarters would not be bad, let alone Qinghe Tianshui Jiedu envoy Jing Zhong's troops.Qinzhou, where the latter is located, belongs to the category of Qinfenglu West Army.

It can be said that before Zhao Song established the post of Qinghe Tianshui Jiedushi, the soldiers and horses here were originally the Western Army.

Jing Zhong, the first Jiedu envoy to die in the original book, has been in charge of training for many years since he took office, and he never dared to be careless in the slightest.It is conceivable that his army is strong.

Gao Qiu's military exploits all depended on Liu, the second youngest of the Western Army, earning for him, and he himself highly respected the combat power of the Western Army.Keeping the best around like this, and surrounded by other soldiers and horses, it is considered safe and sound.

When Wang Huan and Li Congji's two troops rushed to Qinghe, he wanted to see how the Liang bandits took care of their heads and tails.And he has [-] soldiers in his hands, even if there is an accident, it is not a problem to turn the tide if necessary, so he really can rest easy.

With a wave of his hand, there is a long follower by his side to put away the topographic map.Gao Qiu asked someone to make a pot of Tuan tea, and sat on a chair with his eyes closed to meditate, but he was thinking about how to speak to the emperor in his heart.

This is not a memorial, but a private letter sealed by the emperor, so that the emperor will know the situation of this battle.

Gao Lian's political mind is not very good, but he is by no means a fool.It hasn't been a year or two for Zhao Ji to serve Zhao Ji, how come he still doesn't know the nature of this emperor?
It is not bad at all to say that in today's world, people lose their minds by playing with things, indulge in lust, and cannot extricate themselves from indulging in pleasure.But it is such an emperor who cares most about authority.

He, Gao Qiu, is not Tong Guan's eunuch, he can lead an army of hundreds of thousands, so there is no doubt about Emperor Zhao.He has birds!

Can Zhao Ji completely hand over the 10,000+ army to him?It's impossible to be so close to the city of Tokyo.

What's more, the relationship between this battle is huge.

Gao Qiu didn't even dare to check how many of his entourage were the eyes of the Imperial City Secretary.The only thing Gao Qiu can do is to show his loyalty to Zhao Jilai from time to time.

Xingchen is not that easy to do.Even if the emperor wants to turn his face on the minister of outstanding meritorious service, he still has to give him face.But for a lucky person like Gao Qiu, everything depends on the emperor's favor.Gao Lian has always been soberly aware of this.

(End of this chapter)